Venugopal Jidigam
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Senior Director, Engineering @ WaveMaker
Venugopal Jidigam is an engineering leader focused on building next-generation application development platforms that seamlessly integrate AI into real-world software engineering workflows. He has led the design and development of agentic systems for application generation, code exploration, and workflow automation.
His expertise spans backend architecture, developer platforms, and AI-assisted systems, with a strong focus on transforming experimental capabilities into reliable, production-grade solutions. He is particularly interested in the intersection of AI and systems design—where probabilistic intelligence meets deterministic engineering rigor.
Session
From Demo to Production: Why Agentic AI Systems Fail—and How to Fix Them
Most agentic AI systems look compelling in a demo. The agent reasons, calls tools, generates output. Then you try to run it in production, and the non-deterministic behavior of LLMs hits you fast.